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Dale B. Martin · 2006
Martin's collected essays on sexuality and gender in NT scholarship; complements Brooten + Boswell + Moore on the New Perspective queer-biblical reading axis.
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What this book knows
Biblical interpretation of sex and gender is never neutral — interpreters carry ideological power that the text itself cannot constrain.
obedience-and-authority
Immoral interpretations can be — and have been — blamed on the text rather than the interpreter, masking the ethical responsibility of interpreters.
MART-SSS-RC-008One problem with foundationalism is that those foundations tend to crumble on inspection, shaped by selective and tendentious appeals to science and experience.
MART-SSS-RC-051religion-and-sex
Romans 1 offers no etiology of homosexual desire; its assumptions about nature and sex are not those generally held by modern apologists for heterosexism.
MART-SSS-RC-100As punishment for idolatry, God handed the nations over to desires of their hearts, leading to uncleanness and dishonoring of their bodies.
MART-SSS-RC-089Jesus' attraction to specific men is explicit in the Gospels; there is practically no place where Jesus is said to love a woman in particular.
MART-SSS-RC-161self-and-identity
All interpretations taking Paul as advocating gender equality used Galatians 3:28 as main support — yet historically this reading is misleading.
MART-SSS-RC-143Illuminates
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